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Nikon Coolpix S32 is an affordable waterproof camera. You can bring it down to 10m (33 ft) of water and it should be able to survive drops from 1.5m (5 ft). It features 13 megapixel sensor and 3x optical zoom. It also record full HD video and comes in several happy color variations.

Nikon Coolpix L29 is one of the cheapest digital cameras currently available. At around $130 it offers 5x optical zoom, 16 megapixels and HD video recording. When people ask me about cameras this cheap, I usually recommend buying several years used higher specked camera, but after a short stroll through the city I think this Nikon L29 actually might be a good choice. Keep reading to find out how it performs.

Summer is still not over, and I’ve got another underwater camera for review – Nikon Coolpix AW120. On the paper, it is similar to other price comparable competitors – it has 16 megapixels sensor, 5x optical zoom, full HD video and 3 inch LCD screen. Besides that, Nikon AW120 packs full connectivity like GPS, WiFi and motion sensor that can be used to control camera when you cannot use buttons like when wearing thick gloves.

Nikon Coolpix P340 is the latest model in the line of advanced compact cameras. As expected it has a full range of manual controls and customizations including the ability to shoot in RAW file format and was developed with image quality as it main selling point. Of course, you can use it in full AUTO mode what makes it ideal for amateur users in search of a small camera with higher than usual image quality. Since most of the compact camera market share was eaten away by smartphones, advanced cameras like P340 have become very affordable, but most of them untill recently were not capable of producing image quality that could compete with larger DSLR and mirrorless cameras with significantly bigger image sensors. Well, times change and P340 turned out to be good enough to rival some of the older DSLR’s. Keep reading to find out what is so good about this camera even got me thinking into buying one!

Nikon P600 belongs to what is called ultra-zoom camera category. It is the successor to the well received P520 model and promises even more: optical zoom is now ramped up to 60x (24-1440mm), it has 16 megapixel back illuminated sensor, Full HD video, articulated LCD and EVF and a bunch of advanced features. I reviewed P520 10 months ago and on a generally well performing camera found some aspects that should be a bit better, like auto focus speed and inability to manually choose between LCD and EVF. Please read on to find out how I liked the Nikon Coolpix P600.

Nikon D5300 is the latest “mid-range” amateur DSLR camera. It shares many features with the basic Nikon D3300, but on the paper it has more bells and whistles to make it more desirable than its more affordable brother. At the heart of the camera there is a 24 megapixel image sensor without anti-aliasing filter. It shoots at 5 frames per second, has Full HD video at 60 progressive frames per second, articulated LCD screen and WiFi/GPS receivers built-in.

Although mirrorless cameras got a firm grip on the market in the last several years, DSLR sale numbers are higher still. They are bigger, heavier and do not offer better image quality than comparable mirrorless with APS-C sensors. So what’s the catch? Why are they still more popular on global market? I tried to figure it out testing the latest entry-level Nikon DLSR: the D3300.

When it was announced, I thought of the Nikon Df that it would be a dream come true. Classic styling, external controls for just about anything and superb full frame sensor from the flagship D4 camera should make any photographer drop their jaw and involuntarily grasp for their credit card. Even more, Nikon build the tensions with several “Pure photography” teaser videos so the expectations were quite high. Expectations are one thing; reality another. Df might just be the biggest disappointment of the last year. Find out why.

Both Nikon and Canon are very traditional companies. If it was up to them, mirrorless cameras would not even exist. But it is not up to them (luckily). Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and Fuji are putting all their effort in mirrorless concept and there’s a lot of customers who ditched DSLR and gone for smaller mirrorless form factor. In order to keep up to competition, Canon and Nikon released their own mirrorless cameras but there’s a catch. They didn’t want those models to compete with their own entry level DSLR models so they made them worse than they could be. Canon EOS M has dead slow AF, Nikon used too small sensor size and both were too expensive from beginning. So (almost) nobody bought them. What a surprise.

In order to compete with far more advanced NEX, OM-D and Fuji cameras, you need to have something that makes you special. After two years, Nikon finally realized that so now we have AW1. Detail that makes it different is waterproofing so this little camera can go 15m (49ft) underwater, can withstand drops from 2m (6.6ft) and will happily work at -10°C (14°F). And all that without the need for special underwater case and you can still change lenses. Now we’re talking!

Nikon Coolpix P330 is a small and affordable compact camera aimed at more demanding users. Exterior dimensions are similar to almost any other compact camera on the market, yet it has a full range of manual controls, RAW mode and significantly better image sensor. The lens has 5x optical zoom with the bright F/1.8 aperture at wide angle and it records full HD video with stereo sound. P330 is a successor of P310 but it is improved to the level at which those two models cannot be compared (image quality wise). Most important, it sells for $300 and as I found out, it performs splendid.